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Comparative Safety Assessment of Solid Gravity Energy Storage Pathways Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Solid gravity energy storage (SGES) has emerged as a promising long-duration energy storage option, but systematic safety comparisons among its principal technology pathways remain limited. This study develops a unified expert-based framework for the comparative safety screening...

Does receiving positive or negative feedback change our memories about a decision we made?

Abstract The study explored differences in decision recall between junior and senior decision-makers, focusing on accuracy (ACC) and response times (RTs) under varying feedback conditions. 117 participants completed 10 real-life decision-making scenarios, and their decision recal...

Preoperative SGLT2 Inhibitor Use and Outcomes After Major Cardiac Procedures: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of the TriNetX Network

Background/Objectives: Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors improve cardiorenal outcomes in patients with diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Their association with perioperative outcomes after major cardiac procedures remains uncertain. Methods: In...

Roaring to Go: Engagement With Positive Reinforcement Training as a Valid and Reliable Indicator of Positive Welfare in Zoo Big Cats

Engagement with positive reinforcement training is a non-invasive, easily recorded, and valid indicator of welfare in captive bottlenose dolphins. However, despite the ubiquitousness of training programs in zoo-housed mammals in accredited zoos, this metric has yet to be explored...

Real-World Outcomes of Second-Line Chemotherapy in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma

Second-line chemotherapy is widely used in metastatic urothelial carcinoma after progression on first-line platinum-based therapy, but its independent contribution to survival, as opposed to selection of healthier patients, remains unclear. In this multicenter retrospective cohor...

Interpretable Machine Learning for Predicting Radiation-Induced Hypothyroidism in Head and Neck Cancer: A Dual-Center Retrospective Study

Background/Objectives: Radiation-induced hypothyroidism (RIHT) is a frequent complication in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients following radiotherapy, significantly impacting quality of life. This study aimed to develop and validate an interpretable machine learning model for p...

Closed Discrete Bases in Countable-Dimensional Topological Vector Spaces

Let K be either a complete nondiscrete second-countable valued field (e.g., [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]) or a finite field. It is proved that any countable-dimensional topological vector space over K has a closed discrete basis.

Association between serum soluble (pro)renin receptor level and lower limb amputation in hemodialysis patients

Abstract Background The (pro)renin receptor [(P)RR] is a multifunctional protein, and its soluble form [s(P)RR], generated by proteolytic cleavage, has been proposed as a biomarker reflecting tissue renin–angiotensin system activity. Patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) have...

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Land Use Patterns and Carbon Emission Effects in Hilly Regions

Land use and land cover change represent major anthropogenic carbon emission sources, yet most existing studies on landscape patterns and carbon emissions predominantly focus on plain urban agglomerations, with limited empirical evidence from terrain-restricted hilly regions. Tak...

Self-organization of vascularized muscle from bovine embryonic stem cells

Abstract Cultured beef offers a promising alternative to traditional meat. While adult stem cells are commonly used as the cell source for cultured beef, their proliferation and differentiation capacities are limited. Current manufacturing processes for cultured beef steaks often...

Multi-Level Kinematic Spectral Response of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine: Baseline Analysis Using Field Measurement Data

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) experience coupled aero–hydro–servo-elastic excitations that produce structurally distinct kinematic responses at different measurement heights. While field monitoring campaigns increasingly deploy multi-level inertial sensors, the quantita...

Field-Calibrated Degradation Kinetics of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Shotcrete in Humid Underground Silver Mines

Typical specifications for steel fiber-reinforced shotcrete primarily focus on early-age mechanical properties and do not provide much guidance on evaluating changes in capacity over time, particularly under humid underground service conditions. In addition, accelerated laborator...

Digitalization and Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing

Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is a central measure of high-quality green development because it captures productivity performance under resource and environmental constraints. The low-carbon transition of manufacturing therefore requires a clearer understanding of how di...

Boron‐Doped Carbon Overlayers Conquer Sulfur Poisoning of Nickel‐Based Catalysts for Ultrastable Low‐Energy Hydrogen Production Coupled With Sulfion Oxidation

ABSTRACT Replacing the oxygen evolution reaction with the sulfion oxidation reaction (SOR) offers a promising route to low‐energy hydrogen production, yet conventional catalysts are rapidly deactivated by sulfur poisoning. Herein, we report a boron‐doped carbon‐coated nickel cata...

Immunization with mRNA-LNP Elicits De Novo IgG Responses in the Presence of Maternal Antibody

Background/Objectives: Maternal antibodies can inhibit vaccine-specific humoral responses in early life, leaving infants at increased risk for severe disease for vaccine-preventable infections. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, infants under the age of 3 months represented most child ho...

Human–AI Collaborative Neuromorphic Digital Twins with Adaptive Game-Theoretic Intelligence for Fuzzy Multi-Objective Optimization of Multi-Stakeholder Supply Chains

Multi-stakeholder supply chains require decision mechanisms capable of simultaneously interpreting dynamic system states, coordinating conflicting stakeholder interests, and managing uncertainty across interconnected operational decisions. This study proposes an integrated Human–...

A standardized SBML/PRISM benchmark library for stochastic model checking in synthetic biology

Stochastic model checking is a powerful verification technique used in engineering to assess system reliability and correctness. Many synthetic biological systems, including chemical reaction networks, can be modeled as stochastic processes, making stochastic model checking well...

Exploring a Novel Whole-Ovary Decellularization Technique for Developing Suitable Ovarian Bioscaffolds

Artificial ovary construction requires a biocompatible scaffold that mimics native extracellular matrix. This study developed a novel decellularization technique combining physical preconditioning (freeze–thaw cycle, multipoint needling, and 10% NaCl hypertonic solution) with sho...

Polarizations of Artin monomial ideals

We show that any polarization of an Artin monomial ideal defines a triangulated ball. This settles a conjecture of A. Almousa, H. Lohne and the first author [3]. Geometrically, polarizations of ideals strictly containing ( x 1 a 1 , ... , x n a n ) define full-dimensional triangu...

A new single-segment group explicit iteration scheme based on cubic spline approximation for 1D nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations

In this article, we present a new two-step cubic spline method of O(2,4) for estimating the numerical solution of a 1D nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation with appropriate conditions at the initial time level and Dirichlet conditions along the boundary. Furthermore,...